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Episode Date: June 9, 2026

On today’s show: Megan’s ultra-competitive moment during a work game... The very awkward (and visible) phallic candle gifts! “Girl code” betrayal between Megan and Producer Grace The easiest vs worst house moves ever Dating red flags (toilet paper direction debate) Show tension turned “therapy session” Jono's precious “Siamese tomato” discovery Ben's dad calls him a nerd! Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. I'm trying to get the kids actually speaking of Livia Rodriguez, because I'm a big fan of amusing. The kids really do. They got me into it, but I think I've superseded them in the listening to the songs. There's a special pop-up for Olivia Rodriguez pop-up this weekend.

I'm like, kids, kids, we're good on Friday. They're like, oh, okay. And they do like Livi-Rodrigo, but I feel like, oh. And I'm like, well, I need the kids, you know. What do you mean? Pop-up. There's pop-up. There's exclusive merch, collectible gifts, photo opportunities.

Oh, like somewhere where you actually have to go. Fan activities, yeah. Is she here? No, no, it's a pop-up store. It's like a pop-up thing. You can't, don't go to that alone. No, no, but I want to go. She's great.

Sifting around teenage girls. Yeah, I know, so. Good, guys. You like a little bit of a good fan. Oh, yeah, well, sure, everyone's on. I'm a big fan. I'm going to be a pop-up. Yeah, go to pop-up.

Are you, uh, are the daughters going to pop up? Yeah, they are. They do that love of re. I live here, but I feel like I'm pushing that slightly more than them. What a funny with the artists now too with my daughter too. They go hard and then they dip off quite quickly. They might be in the dip off stage. You like to stick with an artist, don't you?

Yeah, see it through. Exactly. Megan, we need to, I guess this is somewhat of an intervention, Ben. Yeah. You know you're very competitive. Yeah. And we had a little game that you'll see on social media where we're playing. We're trying to guess the artists, that the song.

So we had one second of the song. And you'll see it all. come out on social media. So it was a little competition between us to grab a bottle when we thought we knew the answer. No prize. No cash. No trophy. No award. It was just, you know, just some filler content for social media, 23 people might see. Yeah. Is it like unhealthy? Do I need to? Like, I know it's intense, but as soon as you put me up against, like anything, a record, like another person, I don't know what happens. Because you're trying to give yourself a little pep talk, I noticed we started going,

it doesn't really matter. You know, you're talking to yourself quietly, and I'm like, okay, okay. Because I'm trying, I'm trying to tone it down because I've noticed that my son's quite competitive. Well, what,

you're doing a good job, toning it down. Yeah, it was edited that last month. Sounds like you're being possessed by another dimension. That was at the end of it too, and I think producer grace

because you were like, I was losing. You were losing, and then producer grace was like, last one winner takes all, which really like, imagine if she said that and you were winning.

I was thinking that last night I was like, imagine if Megan was winning and someone else said, winner takes all and then she didn't win, she would have been ropeable. I would have. Yeah. But anyway, that was you after knowing,

like a real show. A hollow victory too, because you know deep down you didn't win, but you did get... No, she said win a take time, so I definitely won. It's like a shark feeding frenzy. You didn't win because...

Something switches in you. I know. Your eyes go dead. You played just a second of that before, and I was like, is that me or is that that that? movie trailer with Emily Blunt

and it was me. I did you know we were kind of group texting around about it last night a few hours since the incident and I said you know

what happens what thoughts are going through your head after a moment like you know I like never long just a few seconds after

what thoughts are you processing I I won what do you mean I'm just like I won stuff you guys I felt like I got two of them right

John, I got one right and you got one right so in the grand scheme of things it was a real... But the game master, Grace, says when it takes all. Only because she knew how upset you looked. She was one of the two. Yeah, I know.

I mean, it's just a game. I don't really care. I don't know what happens, guys. I don't think we help it too because we do antagonise it. We're like, oh, imagine if you come third. And we really did plant that seed. And we're like...

Johno, can you please like... You have seen... Ben actually baits me. Ben winds me up. And look, he's like, he does it on purpose. Evermore! I know. Look, hey, the first, the first, like, step to change is recognising that you are competitive.

I feel like I'm there. Yeah, you know, you're throwing yourself into competitions is a good thing. Sometimes it's a little too hard on some things, but in generally it's good to want to win. No, good on you. Good on you. We're proud of you, but. And I did win. You'll always be a winner at a hour.

You tell yourself that. That's good. I've been like I got to That'll just bayed Just a little bit Just a little bit She knows deep down She didn't

But anyway that's fun John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hats Yesterday we got sent some wonderful gifts Some sort of Fallick looking They were

They were fellic They were designed to look like A male anatomy Yeah Smelt magnificent Didn't they They look quite realistic Too these sort of large candles

Yeah Skin colour Yeah No details spares and I don't care how sophisticated you are how educated you are or how old you are it's always comedy

when it comes to that particular shape isn't it so we all got sent these and we're all at various stages in the radio studio having a look at them you know oh this thing's having a look and what you don't factor in is the big windows out towards the foyer here at work a building that's about five or six stories lots of people

that don't work in radio work there at one stage I was sort of caressing my cheek your face with it because it smelt Smelt just gorgeous. Oh my God, it was such a lovely smell. You were rubbing it over your face. I know, yeah, I just kept sniffing it. A complete disregard of what it actually was.

Yeah, same. I was just like, and I was just like, this was good, rubbing my face just walking around the room and a guy was walking in a suit towards a lift and I could just see him looking at me like, what is he doing? We caught eyes and then he just, you know, looked away and then gone to the lift.

I was like, why don't I explain it was a candle, but it couldn't. It's his lasting memory. The window is to my back, and it opens up into. to the big foyer, the lift area. So there's lots of foot traffic. But I couldn't see it.

So I'm just like, I've just got it under my nose. And I'm like playing with it. I just, it's smelled divine. It does smell really good. I used it for prank purposes. And Ben and Ben was like that video. Can never see the day of light on the internet. I deleted it.

We got Bryn who works the night show. Bryn was rattled by too. I think you can add one plus one. Yeah. And figure out what happened. Brin was a little rattled at first. I mean, it would riddle you because it's very realistic. And when Jono's doing the prank, I know.

Everyone's like, it's not that, but. Yeah, I was like, yeah. Oh, no, I was going to say, you have a moment where that could happen. It would never happen. Never. I feel like if it was going to be anyone. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You don't know what's happening under this desk for four hours a day, mate.

Yeah, so anyway, thanks for those inspirational candles. I gave it to my mum. What did Ray Ray Ray say? She would, she would, she would, open it and said, oh my gosh, I thought this was a. a penis. She was like, oh, it is. Oh, Wayne, look at this. And she goes and takes it to my dad.

She's an nudist, so she, you know, she loved it. Love it. Perfect. I tell you what, let's put a little thing up on the itty-bitty. What? The video of you yesterday. No, let's not put that up. That's just a photo of it. So people can see it, you know?

Take it on, take it to the committee. You just have to imagine how it smells. Yeah, okay. You can join group, text story group to 4487 if you want to join our special Itty-Bitty. Jona, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. and you mentioned a week or so ago

that you hadn't been to the dentist in quite a while so we thought let's get you a check-up. Thanks. It's been nine years, pretty much almost a decade. What was it like walking into the dentist for the first time in nine years? Talk us through the emotions.

It was really fancy. I don't know if it was exclusive to what we went to City Dental Lounge, but it was nice. And I remember it being like really clinical and smelling like... No, denses have changed a lot. in the last decade, mate. These ones had a massage chair.

Yeah, it had a massage chair. It had a beautiful view. It smelled like, well, it might have been because there was all women working there. It smelled so nice. Yeah, right. And I never had, yeah, the massage chair. And when I looked up, there was a screen that had like coral reef. So it was relaxing.

So this is a shout-out-to-Franchesca. Or Fiona, as you called her a couple times. Yeah, I don't know why I called her a few times. I was like, I'm so sorry. It sounded like you were medicated and you weren't at the start of it. I really was quite anxious. She said, what are you worried about? And I was like, I don't like all the drills and all the picking and all the, like, I'm scared of the outcome.

I don't want injections in my mouth. Well, this is just a check-up, right? She was like, well, I'm not going to do any of that. This is some coverage from Megan's first dental visit in nine years. Moment. We'll be back after this. Pitchers of what? No.

What is going on in that disgusting mouth bend? Disgusting, disgusting. disgusting mouth. We're about to find out high drama and the detail. So they needed x-rays. They needed pictures. Now, to be honest, at the end of it all,

those teeth were pretty good. All in all, weren't they? Yeah. Cute little filling, you're saying? Just a tiny little thing. Just kind of like caveat that by saying the filling I need to get is because I chipped my tooth back

probably 20 years ago and now it's getting stuff in it. Yeah, and what you would imagine but not going to the dentist or a hygienist and I'm like this is not a there's stuff that builds up that they had to get off. Yeah. Although producer grace

says there's a little, little tiny bit of information. So yeah, you're on ear. We wrapped it up nicely. Megan's got the person out. She's like, oh, perfect mouth. The teeth look great.

A little, cute little filling from... Then you and Grace arrived back post show and some further developments. That you had... You neglected to tell us. So... Yeah.

Don't get all set. No, I'm just, no, I'm, do you know, because Grace was like, we won't tell the boys about that. She was like, you know, we've got girls back kind of thing, girl code. Girl code. And I was like, cool, it's just like a tiny wee detail that I know they're going to linger on. So let's just like leave it out. She was like, I got you. I got you.

All this big dog chat. And she comes back and she dogs the girls. We won't get into this just. Yeah. We won't get into it. Because this is a prime time. No. We do love the 6 o'clock club.

Don't get us wrong. After 8 o'clock this morning, we'll have that. The reason is behind us. You'll find out how, why I'm even more pissed at Grace today. Just some further development. Because we left thinking on here, the show wrapped up, Perfect Mouth. It's a minute detail that I know you two are just going to dine out on. You didn't tell us.

And you came in so like, Perfect Mouth, Perfect Mouth. And I think that's why Patricia Grace had to tell us, because of either way you were like, it's pure Mouth. I didn't know that the secret. As a provisor that I didn't come in, arrogant, you never said, I'm only going to keep girl code if you don't come in and say, Blu-la-la-la. Save this gold. Please save this gold for 8.30.

You know, this is good. But this is peak time entertainment. 8.30 this morning. You can check it up there. If we're still, you know, everyone's okay. We're here still at 8.30, hopefully. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. After, you know, the worst, most inconvenient move you've had to do in moving house. Because producer grace, we think you might potentially have the most convenient and easiest this weekend. I think I'm moving, I would say maybe like two metres in total. Two meters. That is crazy. To a different house, though. To a different house.

So I'm moving to a completely different house. It's the back house. It's the bigger house, guys. I'm going to have more room. I'm a proper adult now. But it is definitely the easiest move ever. All I'm doing is just picking up my stuff and walking two minutes. But why?

Why? Why? Because I want to pick a house. What do you mean? You could literally... Is it... So that one became vacant. That one became vacant and it has a really nice of you

and it has a big room. And I guess so you like the neighbourhood and stuff. And I love the neighbourhood and I love the neighbours. And the biggest thing for me is me and my partner had been sharing one chest of drawers. Megan, we've been trained. Oh my gosh. I know for two years and now I get my own chest of drawers.

So Megan, we'll go and shop. You could literally run an extension cord from your old house to your new house and probably still get the Wi-Fi from the new... That's actually so true. We'll just keep our Wi-Fi going. We'll just keep our modem. But you just keep our Wi-hmm. But you just to just keep our modem.

You still got like put stuff in boxes and move it from A to B too, which is the niggly part. The most inconvenient part though is that the house where now is only one floor. This next house is two floors and we're upstairs. The living rooms upstairs and our bedrooms upstairs. So it's going to be leg day for me. Could you just, this is what I'd do. I'd get a tarpaulin, put it out the back, chuck everything on it and drag it. Oh, drag it.

Oh, that's an interesting. We'll get a crane and crane it up and lift it over. That's smart me. You know the people who lived in the house before, they had a jacuzzi? And they used a crane to lift it up onto the deck. It's not still there. No, it's not still there, guys. I don't have the jacuzzi.

Wrap it up like a burrito. That's really smart. Just drag it over. My thought is, because the drive, there's a steep drive. The only thing of the driveway is steep, if I get my dad with his trailer and I chuck everything down and you just reverse his two meters and take everything off. Oh, you're dragging dad into the same? What do you mean, of course? Dad is the back, bud.

I mean, you probably even need to put some in boxes. No, I wouldn't. You could just carry plates and put them in the thing and carry it. You can throw the plates like a frisbee too, Jack, your partner. He catches them in the lounge and the new house. Also, everything that's hanging, I'm just going to like grab it all and just walk over. And just drawers, I'll just grab a whole thing of drawers and just walk over. Do you even have a new letterbox?

Same letterbox? No, well, it must be a different letterbox. It's a different house. Do you even know what a letterbox is? Yeah. Do you ever clear it? No one ever checks the letterbox. It's this box that's like somewhere, it might be at the end of your driveway.

They put like paper things in it. I don't know what you're talking about. No. Okay, so that's the shortest move. No one's really going to beat that. No, they're probably the most convenient. 0,800 hits. The worst move you've had to make, trucks breaking down.

Did you move all your stuff to a new house and it was the wrong address? You know how hard it is to schedule the day? So you're like, okay, it's going to be this day. You often have to move on that day and then it like pours with rain. Oh, yeah. You don't help anyone move. No, no. I have done many times over the years and now I'm just like, no, it feels like I've just, you know, people, like even my

other one was like, I'll pay for a move for it to do it. There are people that do that. I'm not strong. I don't expect other people to help me. It's not help, you know? No one. I've done it plenty of times throughout the thing and I'm like this. You're moving Koreans. You end up hating the person that's asking you to move. You know?

You're no longer taught to them. You're not going to make you me doing this. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Just talking about the most inconvenient to relocations, where's moves. I remember I helped a, as an interim, We've all interned in radio and you'll just do anything, won't say no to anything.

Because they put the threat of, you'll behind you. There's ten others who will. Yeah, we've all had that chat. And this one was Help My Boss Move, which I don't know how that helped my radio career. But, yeah, we started first thing Saturday morning, then the moving truck broke down. That we were driving, that we rented. He's like, I'll be back shortly. So I sat with the truck.

Seven hours. Oh, wow. Seven hours. He wasn't. He wasn't back shortly, yeah. So it was like nine in the morning. back like two, three in the afternoon. Well, doing what? What do you be doing? Just caught up with the move. I think he got quite up with the

move. It probably forgot about me. I was an intern. Yeah. And then probably went, oh, he was all that other stuff I put in the truck. Oh, that's right. And then we got a new truck. And then... Did he not call you or anything? No cell phones back in those. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And you had to navigate dinosaurs and everything. And he had a boring time sitting there without a phone to really think of two. She did the stuff I thought about. Oh, my God. I do remember a move I had to do once. My wife had broken her ankle and so her and I were moving from a flat to another flat and it was and I was I'll get my mate to help around he turned up good he turned up but he was hung over and they just sat on

the couch the two of them because she couldn't oh and she like drag itself and do it something nothing nothing she had a good catch up with Amanda yeah was it your mate or her mate it was my mate it was like oh it's too nice to be like can you help me i can't really do this today and i'm like you can't do this today so anyway yeah that was the option Not to turn up too. So it is great, I think he came straight from a nightclub, you know. Oh, God. What a legend.

He's like, not for me today, sorry, mate. Worse moves, Rebecca. What was it? It was 2008, and we decided to ditch city life and head out farming. So we moved from Christchurch. Beautiful sunny day. We knew rain was in the forecast. We got halfway to require, and it began snowing.

And we'd hired this truck and we're like, right, well, we'll see if the truck can get there. And we slowly followed. It got sicker and sicker. It was just, it was a nightmare. We'd only ever driven out for the interview. So I got lost. And then I had my mother following me because we're also moving out with our first child. And slowing down, she crashed into the back of me.

Oh, no. Oh, no. And then snow? Yep, in the snow And then to make it worse We had to stay in this little cottage With none of our belongings And then try and unload the truck

In the morning The cottage only had this little small window So here we are passing furniture in Through the window And it was just It's one of those moves I'll always remember I'm going to remember it now

I'm traumatised from it That is really good Rebecca There's some great texts coming through as well we were living in Australia we had a flatmate that wouldn't get the hint and she wouldn't move out so we decided to pretend

to move out we told her we had a week and so we all packed up our stuff and put it into boxes and then pretended to move out and then on the day we all moved out into the truck they went on their way

and then we moved all our stuff back in the house and the truck well I hope she didn't just move down the road because she's definitely going to see you all back in there that is a big brainstorm

storm session from that flat. Okay, we'll get to more of these later on. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Morning, Megan. You mentioned a week or so ago that you hadn't been to the dentist in quite a while, so we thought that's get you a check-up.

Thanks. It's been nine years. It's pretty much almost a decade. What was it like walking into the dentist for the first time in nine years? So talk us through the emotions. It was really fancy. I don't know if it was exclusive to what we went to City Dental Lounge, but it was nice.

and I remember it being like really clinical and smelling like... Oh, dances have changed a lot in the last decade, mate. These ones have had a massage chair. Yeah, it had a massage chair. It had a beautiful view. It smelled like, well, it might have been because there was all women working there. It smelled so nice. Yeah, right.

And I never had, yeah, the massage chair. And when I looked up, there was a screen that had like coral reef. So it was relaxing. Yeah. So this is a shout out to to Francesca. Or Fiona, as you called her a couple times. Yeah, I don't know why I called Fiona. I was like, I'm so sorry.

It sounded like you were medicated and you weren't at the start of it. I was just, I really was quite anxious. Yeah. Because I, she said, what are you worried about? And I was like, I don't like all the drills and all the picking and all the, like, I'm scared of the outcome. I don't want injections in my mouth. Well, this is just a checkup, right? She was like, well, I'm not going to do any of that.

This is some coverage from Megan's first dental visit in nine years. Moment. We'll be back after this. Pitchers of what? No. What is going on in that disgusting mouth bend? Disgusting, disgusting mouth. We're about to find out

high drama at the dentist. Oh, no. So they needed x-rays. They needed pictures. Now, to be honest, at the end of it all, the teeth were pretty good. All in all, weren't they? Yeah.

Cute little filling, you were saying? Just a tiny little thing. Just kind of like caveat that by saying the filling I need to get is because I chipped my tooth back probably 20 years ago and now it's getting stuff in it. Yeah, and what you would imagine with not going to the dentist or hygienist and I'm like, this is not a, they're stuff that builds up that they had to get off. Like tartar that I need to get.

Although producer Grace says there's a little, little tiny bit of information. So, yeah, you're on here. We wrapped it up nicely. Megan's got the perfect mouth. She's like, oh, perfect mouth, the teeth look great, a little, cute little filling from. Then you and Grace arrived back, post show. and some further developments that you had... You neglected to tell us.

So... Yeah, don't get all set. No, I'm just, no, I'm... Do you know, because Grace was like, we won't tell the boys about that. She was like, you know, we've got girls back kind of thing. Girl code. Girl code. And I was like, cool.

It's just like a tiny wee detail that I know they're going to linger on. So let's just like leave it out. She was like, I got you. I got you. All this big dog chat. and she comes back and she dogs the girls. We won't get into this just yet.

We won't get into it because this is in prime time. No, we do love the 6 o'clock club. Don't get us wrong. After 8 o'clock this morning we'll have that. You'll find out how, why, I'm even more pissed at Grace today. Just some further development, because we left thinking on here,

the show wrapped up, perfect mouth. It's a minute detail that I know you two are just going to dine out on. Tell us. And you came in so like, perfect mouth, perfect mouth. And I think that's why producer grace had to tell us, because of either way you were like, it's pretty mouth. I didn't know that the secret was a provisor that I didn't come in arrogant. You never said, I'm only going to keep girl code if you don't come in and say,

Blu-la-la-la-la. Save this gold. Please save this gold for 8.30. You know, this is peak time entertainment. 8.30 this morning. Join us. If we're still, you know, everyone's okay. We're here still at 8-30, hopefully.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. I want to know if this would be a flag for you, both of you guys. Okay. Wife's friend, she went on a date. And it was with a colleague from work, went back to his house just for coffee or whatever at the end of the night. And she went to the bathroom.

And the first flag for her was the toilet paper roll was facing the incorrect way. Under. Yeah. I don't even, like, to be honest, I don't even know what way's correct. I know. I pay little attention to that. People go, it's got to be this way. And if that's fine, I'm like.

That surprises me. Yeah, I do get, yeah, for the me, I just don't know which. Do you have a preference of stuff? No. No, no. I mean, at the end of the day, the end result still happens. But yeah, that was a big flag for her. But some people, some people, yeah, like this person.

A deal breaker. Yeah. Didn't go on a second date with him. Yeah. But also. That was the only flag. Well, then she said the bathroom was in a bit of a dire. Oh, okay.

Right, so. Is that, it was an issue for you? Yeah. Really? Yeah. But, like, it's fixable. Those two things collectively, though.

Right. Because he wasn't even, like, did he know that she was coming over? Yeah, that's a good question, because sometimes things, you get to see and, you know, things happen. If he knew she was coming over and it was still in a state, no, mm-mm, mm-mm.

Yeah, good point. Because he's a messy person. But that can be fixed. They can be beaten out of it. No, I don't want to have to fix it. Right. Because you've got to come. Because you're going to constantly be nagging.

I don't want to be, and then you're going to be the cleaner in the relationship. No. Wow, okay. Oh, there we go. Hard, no. Jeez, just from toilet paper facing the wrong way. If it was just the toilet paper, I would have gone out and had some banter and made sure that he... Was open to...

I'm okay if he doesn't care, but if you're going to die on a hill for having it underwood, I'm not... Yeah, true. I'll be like, nah, see you later. Yeah, like, if someone in our house up was like, that's the way it's got to go, then I probably would have had in my head going, oh, that's the way it's got to go. But we've never had that conversation. So it's free rate. Just how you're feeling on the day.

Yeah. I mean, it probably has been put in ways that people, but we've never, yeah. It's never been a contentious issue in your house. It's very much an over family. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, I suppose it's an easier drop. The paper's dropping down into your hands if it's sitting over.

Yeah, and it just, otherwise it trails along the wall. You know what really, it really craps me about the old public toilets. You have to yank it and you only get like one square at a toy. And it's thin. Yeah. And it doesn't like, it doesn't rotate. It just kind of jolts. You're like, I definitely need more than one of this.

One little square is not going to do me, yeah. My finger's going to pop through that. What I do appreciate too is when you sometimes go stay at an accommodation somewhere. It doesn't have to be too fancy, but they've gone into the trouble of making a little triangle. Yeah. Like, here you go. You're like this. Some, I don't know how they do it, but they get obviously wet it and then make a little dot to like stick at the triangle down to this.

That is a sophisticated wipe, that is. Sometimes my husband, Andrew, will fold the toilet paper, but I don't think it's because it's fancy. I think he wants me to know that he's cleaned the bathroom. It's like him going, I've cleaned it. Oh, so you'll have triangles in your... Oh, wow. But yeah.

At the estate. He's just wanting me to be like, oh my God, thank you for cleaning the toilet this one time. That's a nice touch. You might start triangling the old tip paper at home. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Thinking some therapy, some professional therapy might be required for two cast members of the show.

Now, producer grace will get you in here. And our wonderful colleague and co-host, Megan Pappas as well, we'll just focus in on you too for a second. Why are you talking like that? I'm just trying to bring the calm levels down. I know you want to keep it calm, but why was I producer grace and she was wonderful. Yeah, true, now you're bound Grace up. You're both wonderful people. Now, what happened yesterday?

Megan went to the dentist for the first time in nine years. Well done, Megan. Yeah, I did. Thank you. Positive affirmations. Well done, Megan. Yeah. Thanks guys.

And then you said on air, listen, the dentist, Francesca, wonderful Francesca, said, Perfect mouth hasn't seen a better mouth, just a tiny, tiny little filling required, wonderful oral health. Yeah. Then you two returned from the dentist. Okay, the recorders were rolling. We felt there was something being kept from us, Ben. Producer Grace.

The only reason you felt like something was being kept from you is because it was alluded to, by my good friend and fellow female, Grace. Now, because you came bounding in, Perfect mouth. Yeah, this is where I'm with Producer Grace on this one. Perfect Mouse said that my team. Of course you are. No enamel.

Okay. The most perfect mouth of the dentist didn't ever say. You came in hot, bragging. You came in bragging. And this is where you should have just played it cool, and we wouldn't be having this conversation. So, producer Grace, just in her full honesty, just couldn't keep this hidden from us.

Like it has bad breath disease. No, I don't. No, I don't have halatose. She doesn't have a lot. Was it anything? I will never dog the girls. It sounds like there was more, but... Dog the girls, mate.

Dog the girls. I won't say it. I never dog the girls, but you are. She says... I won't say it. Where the tartar is at the back, she was like your gums are inflamed and it can be like a tiny bit of ginger. But Megan said the word ginger virus, I didn't. She didn't say I had gingeritis.

So a little bit of ginger. A little bit of ginger. Just a little bit of ginger. Just a little bit. Keep that hidden. Yeah. Thing is. No, shush. I have the talking stick. Okay, go.

Shush. We were there and Grace said, I don't need to tell the boys. I won't tell the boys. I've got you. We're the girls. And I was like, thanks, because they'll dine out on it.

And so we agreed. We agreed. She comes back in. I didn't realize that that bet was made on the provisor. Let me look at her. No, I'm covering my eyes. I didn't realize that girl code was on a provisor that I didn't come in and be like, I've got great teeth.

You didn't set those parameters. Because Grace couldn't sit back and walk the girls when I came in like proud of my mouth. And then suddenly you were like, you can't be proud. I'm going to knock you down in a peg. Jordan didn't play in the audio, but at the end I was like,

oh, Megan does have amazing teeth. And I did say the whole time, I was like, making the widest teeth. No, but it starts, what is my job, guys? What is my number one job? It's to keep you humble.

Every time I see a photo of you guys, I'll draw a mustache on you. I'm keeping you humble. I think your number one job is to be our producer. I would have said that. That too. That was probably in your job crew. Anywhere in your contract does it's the number one job. Keep the whole soul.

I'm pretty sure. Knock us down a peck. It's because you were being so cocky out of you. You're like, yeah, mate here, bith. And she had been there for nine years. And I was like, what a dick. So you're like, I'll never dog the girls, but unless you're being like an egotistical dick,

then all of that goes out of the window. Okay, now this particular incident aside, I'll just rewind to this time last week where we had a special guests in the studio watching us make radio, professional people, Make radio and... Hey, look, we've got a guess, guys. We've got a guess.

We've got a guess. So it's not new. Okay, so we need to settle the tension. But there's no tension. Well, that, okay. Do you know? No tension. She's... No tension?

4487 on the text. She's just my little sister. What do we need to do to settle the tension? Okay, 4487. Maybe you've got some advice? I just, I loan her, like, dresses. That's true. We text all the time.

But she, like, that's why I, like, absolutely go off at her, because I love her. 4487 on the text. Maybe we don't. Maybe it's all good. Oh, when you settle attention? Are we talking in a be a knuckle cage fight in the garage? No, do you think, like, brothers, like, fist fight and then they're all good, like. Yeah, that's true.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Does the show need to, you know, relieve some tension or not? Maybe it's all good. Maybe it's fine. The tension's been released. What are you talking about? I release it every day. She does.

You do, actually. Megan, just winning a simple, fun little game in the studio. It's healthy. To be fair to you, Megan, Andrew, your husband, six weeks away, you've been in the trenches. Yeah. And your relationship with your work sister, producer Grace, your younger work sister is kind of reaching boiling points. We've decided. Yeah, like, it's boiled over a couple times.

You say it's fine. You say it's what you do, sisters. And maybe that's the case. I don't know whether we keep calling each other sisters, but like Megan's old enough to be my mom. Oh, my son. Oh,

they got another guy of us. Our parents separated and the mom had another child. We're half siblings. Oh, wow. So, yeah,

well, there we go. So, we want to resolve on this. We want to, we want to, you know, ease the tension

of the shoes. It's too much, too much. So, oh, eight over the hits. Please help us out. Lovely to have you on, Abe.

Happy New Year to you. Happy New Year. What do we need to do? I reckon they need to have a boxing match Violence I don't know who would win A fight for life sort of Dean Lonergan special Are we talking? What are we talking here?

That's the only way to sort of me I know when I was kids with my brothers We used to do that So I think if they're sisters I think our squabbling is the equivalent Of us boxing That's the relieving It's the verbal puncher

I'll throw hands if needed Who do you think would win? Oh Dan Hooker's got his one minute scraps We could do Take them around the backyard one minute All the bloody ex-prisoners in the game I'm standing around, chanting I reckon if we played by the rules I win

But I reckon should get scrappy and like Punch below the belt I'm not going to pick a side on this one, that's for sure I really appreciate your phoning through the show We're sorting out some therapy for producer Grace And Megan, Caitlin What is it? I think that you guys need to get over it

Who, us? No, John and Ben, get over it That's just how sisters are Yes, Caitlin. Neither of you have sisters, so you obviously don't get it. Like, me and my sister are like that all the time. That's just how we communicate. Well, yeah, I do have sisters, but I would wind them up like I wind up Megan.

If anything, it's me and Ben that need therapy. No, actually, he just needs to stop winding me up. You do it with like this smirk on your face too. There's no therapy needed. You guys just need to get over it. Also, Caitlin, they're not sisters. They're colleagues, and this is a workplace. Yeah.

Don't be exactly. Oh, are you deciding now you're going to be professional, are you? This is a workplace. I do have to see. Especially after what I did yesterday with the felon. The felon candle. That video will never see the light of day. So many people texting through.

Someone saying Megan and Grace should swap roles for the day? Like job roles or life roles? Jess Monroe. Grace told me I have to read Jess Monroe's text out. I'm with Grace. If Girl Code doesn't come with the right to call each other out, then I don't want to be part of girl. Your code.

Someone else saying, say sorry, say I love you and hug. One of you may be overreacting those. I'll say I love you because I do, but I'm not saying sorry. I don't want a hug, I don't like that. Okay, so things are still similar to way. But I only think, you know, me and Megan was so peaceful yesterday. When it was just us too, we had the best time. Yeah, we were at the dentist.

When it's the two of us, because we've been, we've done the rogue twice now together. We're chill. What's the best time? Well, so you're blaming out to your testosterone, are you? I think it's you too. What, just sitting here existing? Come in between us. Yeah, and Ben's stupid smirk.

Ladies, ladies, stop fighting over us. Ladies, please. So that conversation when you came back bragging about your teeth and then Grace came in and said that was all initiated by us. That was your fault. It was us. I said nothing, the whole thing. No, because you were like Ben.

I feel like there's something else. I do just Grace's look at the face. Listen, guys, I feel like this has been productive. I think we've... No way. In no ways this has been productive. I think we've ended up in a worse place So we start.

John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. I arrived home last night and came home to Jennifer, my wife, hysterically, coming, running out of the front door. She's like, we've hit the jackpot. Oh, right. I said, have we won lotto? She said, better, even better than lotto.

Yeah, than lotto. And she held up this. What is it? What is it? It's a Siamese tomato. Conjoined tomato. Oh, yes. Too many cherry tomatoes.

join together. Blended to it. They'll make a documentary on that. Look at that thing. It's like, you know, when you see Siamese twins and their heads are kind of molded together. Have you ever seen that before in your life? Don't know if I have.

Have you, Megan? Please you've been for humorous. It's quite regular as. You're doing so well. Have you seen this before in your life? No, but... No, exactly. It's a first.

It's a world first. Yeah. The world's first Siamese tomato. Yeah. To Papa? Are we thinking to Papa? Or just your mouth. National Museum?

Smithsonian Institute. You really, you really... I bought it in a container and everything. You did. You did. You really, yeah. I'm surprised not wearing gloves to touch it like a valuable thing at the museum. It does look quite testicular too, doesn't it?

Yeah. When they're joined together. You're Googling to see whether it's a common occurrence. Yeah, a double or fused cherry tomato. natural anonymity called fascination where the tips they merge together the tips of merge together

I'm fascinated it's called what a fascination and I am fascinated well yeah but not growing great for your favour there's quite a lot of pictures if you put images online do they look better than this one

some yes some looks like really like that one looks like a Just look at that one Oh that's a big one Oh they're not even cheery ones Those are fully developed Oh I thought I had something big here guys

Double tomato, yeah. Tell you what we'll do. No, we won't. Are you going to take a photo and are you going to put it on that socials? Is that what you were going to say? Go on then. Don't cut me off. Go on then.

No, yes, I will. I'll put it on. In fact, no, Megan, I know you are the only one on the show who can set up the text to bounce back. I'd prefer that as an option. So you won't be able to text in, but 20 cents text supplies too, you know, like that's, you know. What, tomato or cherry? So if you want to pay 20 cents. have a look at something that you're like, nah.

Tomato. Maybe we should just put it on the hit socials, then it's free. Yeah, yeah, to do that. No, people should be paying to see this. This is the eighth wonder of the world. Maybe join the eddy-bitty-hitty committee. We'll put it on there. We'll bury it in there.

She's really downgrading my comms. I'm trying to do a press release for this thing. Start it with a text bounce back, easy form of con. You know, I know, I might do it on Insta. Not good enough for Insta. You've downgraded to our smaller 200-person committee. Yeah. That's all this deserves.

Yeah, I think so. Oh, yeah. Monsters. What do you want to do with it? Like I said, we'll leave it to the people to decide. Take it on tour. Just put it on tour. Regional tour.

Yeah, I'm with you. Could be hitting all the summer hotspots. All right, we'll get that up on the Hitty-Bitty Hitty Committee. Yeah, you can join that. John O'Bin and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. You know, like, I guess parents and technology is something that we all, you know, like, have to deal with in our day-to-day life. And it's very easy to slip out of what is the appropriate.

think of technology. It moves quite fast and so I do appreciate. Even for us it moves fast. Yeah, totally. There's things that, you know, I don't know. I'm definitely not an expert as well. And, you know, the use of an emoji is something that, you know, I don't know what everyone means. And in this case, my dad might have it 100% correct. I'm getting confused at the moment, so I feel the lines are being blurred between a thumbs up and a heart. Right. I find I'm hearting things that in the past I would have thumbsed up. And I'm like, does this message deserve a heart? Does my heart actually believe, you know, Ben, I've got to get away at 10 o'clock today.

I hearted that. Oh, yeah. And I was like, more of a thumbs up to me in my mind. But I'm saying you're scared of the thumbs up. Yeah. Well, the thumbs up most of the time takes more effort, I think. Isn't it further along? I don't know.

I just heart anything as like an acknowledgement. I've seen it. It's like, cool. My kids always say the thumbs up. It's just dad thing. Yeah, I've got that in the back of me here too. Yeah. So this has come from my dad.

He, like, text my sister and I, like, about a week ago, and reminded us of someone's birthday and the family, which is nice. Lovely. And I did, I did a heart, just a little heart thing, just to acknowledge that I'd seen the text. Then he replied back with the emoji with the nerd glasses and buck teeth. And I'm like, what is the message there? And I don't know the message. Is that meant to be you?

Because you wear glasses from time of time. Maybe in my teeth. I don't think I've got, but I was like, oh yeah, dad's reply back. Then I looked at it later. I was like, what does he mean by that? Does he wear glasses? Yeah, yeah, no Sometimes.

Yeah, sometimes. Yeah, he does, yeah. I feel like a parent would reply with that, like that's him smiling at you, being like, yeah. I think that's supposed to be him. That would be my guess. Is that Kevin? But Kevin isn't there buck teeth?

I love it. No, but he's just going with the glasses. He's got the closest emoji. He's like, yep. Yeah, so it's like, it's a happy looking emoji with the glasses at the buck teeth. And I'm like, what does he mean? By like, Producer Grace, you're across, you know, things for, a different generation.

Yeah, you come in here, Grace. Yeah. Am I, is it just Dan misfiring emoji or wanting to send something back? Or is there a hidden meaning behind this? How fast did you reply? Pretty good, pretty quickly. Yeah, he's calling you a nerd. Oh.

He's going, nerd. Why are you replying so fast? He's like, what, suck up? Nerd, but he's the one that's stuck. No, he's, I reckon that's him being like, okay, I see you're replying. Yeah. Tell you what, we'll try. Like, they've got to think about it.

He's a school teacher as well. He's his dad. Well, try and get my dad on before the end of the show. We'd need to solve this mystery. Well, he's not answering the phone at the moment. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats.

Trying to get to the bottom of something that happened from my dad. He sent a message to my sister and I, about someone's birthday reminding us about a birthday. I hearted it and just said, you know, to acknowledge that I'd seen it. It's a popular form of acknowledgement. And then he fired back an emoji, which is, you know, great. People fire back emojis, but it was the nerd emoji, right? With the glasses and like the buck tea. Yeah.

So I thought he was calling himself, you know, like I thought that was him. Representing him, smiling back at you being like, I see your heart. Yeah, maybe, or maybe it's a misfire of emoji and just put an emoji there, or maybe it's calling me a nerd. I don't know. Who knows? I'll tell you what, we've spent over an hour trying to track down your dad. No, it's been tough.

Kevin Boyce, and he joins us now. Kuhay, how are you? Yes, something's wrong with my phone. I have to blame it on no one, but the actual telephone company. And then you are blaming it on people. Oh, no, no. Big telco? I'm trying to get hold of you.

Yeah, yes. So maybe that's it. Maybe you've got some phone issues because there's a question that I wanted to ask you. Yes. Okay, so you sent a lovely message the other day to me and my sister Amelia just reminding us about a birthday and the family, which was nice. And I hearted it. I put a little hearts, you know, so I acknowledge I'd seen the message. And then you replied back with an emoji, which had sort of like emoji, yellow face emoji with the big glasses and the buck teeth.

The nerd, the nerd emoji. The nerdy. Yeah, okay, people in my business, I thought emoji was a town in Italy, and then I realized that it was actually something else. When I looked out up, it came back with something with black teeth. I thought that would be really appropriate for someone like you.

And you can get your teeth into a lot of things in the morning. It's a lot of things in the morning. They didn't even know we were calling. And now he's got into a routine. Yeah, I see me. you get it from Ben. So is the emoji supposed to represent Ben being a nerd? It is, it is.

And I don't think we go viral. I really do think they could go viral. Yeah, okay. Your dad's calling you a nerd. You, like, you said the text. I'm a nerd. Yeah, but you fired back your response straight away. Get that off the to-do list.

I was like, yeah. I have seen it. Well, otherwise Dad will do the thing. if you've read a text, I haven't acknowledged it, he'll send the same text again. Why do parents do that? That's so passive, aggressive,

Keeffe. Let's remind you that you probably haven't read it, or it's gone into the hard basket, and it's gone there, and possibly it's not going to be answered. Okay, so now I'm... I speak for four million Kiwit. He is representing the parents of New Zealand.

So what I did is acknowledge it, then I get a nerd emoji back, but anyway, that's fine. That's fine. Well, you... It's caught it. It's got a reaction. That's exactly what I want.

He's going on you. I think me and Kev will get along. Yeah, I think so. He's more on top of the tech game than you thought. I think the real winner out of this conversation, emoji is a town in Italy.